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Movie review: Julieta

In his 20th film, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar drops the farcical approach of his last, I'm So Excited!, and the chilling tone

Reviewed: Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals

Keeping up with film releases can sometimes feel like the entertainment selection on a long-haul flight. Every movie starts to blur

Movie review: A bittersweet charmer

Following 2014's acclaimed Love Is Strange, Little Men is another very New York story with real estate concerns from director-writer Ira Sachs.

Review: Smart take on NZ intelligence's flaws

These doco directors brought clarity, perspective and humanity with The 5th Eye, which covers New Zealand's role in the Five Eyes spy alliance.

This is the movie you need to see this weekend

Arrival does have moments of story daftness, however, Adams' performance as Dr Louise Banks is terrific.

Movie review: The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans, directed by Ryan Gosling fanboy Derek Cianfrance (Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine) is the latest

Did Gibson succeed with his comeback movie?

REVIEW: Mel Gibson will be hoping that Hacksaw Ridge can reset the bones of a broken career.

The movie that created this Hollywood couple

The predictability of an unhappy resolution headed the tears off - but the redemptive ending knocked me. I was still sobbing as I left the cinema.

Better than Batman? The verdict on Ben Affleck's new superhero movie

Affleck, autism and accounting combine for enjoyable if ropy action movie.

Review: Charming, light and nostalgic

For all its classy production values, Café Society isn't as invigorating as Woody Allen's top-notch work can be.

Argentinean film a 'wild tale told well'

As the 2014 Oscar-nominated anthology Wild Tales showed, Argentinean cinema does like its black comedies.

The Da Vinci Code is back - and terrible

It's ten years since Tom Hanks first played the dull but exceedingly well-read Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code, and seven since he did another lap of art-history orienteering in Angels and Demons.

Review: Star's 'gutsy performance' keeps film on track

A whodunit story makes an absorbing thriller on page, but less so on screen, even if it also delivers a compelling title character.

Review: All-too-real disaster movie 'riveting'

It's a spectacle-driven disaster movie that isn't pure escapism. It's got wanton destruction by the barrelful, but it makes every life - or death count.

Amanda Knox film makes Netflix debut

As a crisp digest of a lurid true-crime story that sprawled over 10 years, the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox deserves credit for concision.

Magnificent Seven more 'mild' than wild

It's called The Magnificent Seven which marks it as a remake of a remake - the 1960 original Western lifted its plot from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.

Family fantasy film 'light' on laughs

Director Tim Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs' time travelling, gothic novel about children with peculiar abilities is filled with immaculate costumes, imaginative monsters and an overall attention to detail that you don't get at the movies every day.

Did we need another Bridget Jones film?

While you're unlikely to include Bridget Jones's Baby on your 'best of' list, it's certainly a fun Friday night film that will put a smile on your face.